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CHAPTER II 



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THERE was no difficulty in 

 following the trail. It stretched 

 away through the forest in a curving 

 'vQ 1 line, the brown earth showing darkly 



,0 against the green of the herbage, 



avoiding the stems of the tall trees 

 which reached one hundred feet and 

 more towards the sky, 



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forming a lane through 

 the rank vegetation, 

 and marked here and 

 there by overturned 

 bamboo clumps or 



splintered saplings. 

 The man kept to one 

 side of the deeply 

 indented footmarks, for 



